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A few years back, rounded corners became one of the signature design elements of the Web 2.0 trend. Even though they started as a fad, rounded corners are more than simple eye candy. They also have a role in separating or grouping the sections of a page.

As CSS3 gets closer to becoming the new standard for mainstream design, the days of rounded corners through elaborate background images is fading. This means less headache and time spent working out alternatives for each browser.

There is a big and justified interest from the web community about the changes introduced in HTML 5 and in the last weeks I’m frequently receiving a lot of questions and requests about this topic. In this post I want to illustrate a quick roundup of some point of interest about the use of lists in HTML 5.

We’ve all had to achieve some effect that required an extra handful of divs or PNGs. We shouldn’t be limited to these old techniques when there’s a new age coming. This new age includes the use of CSS3. In today’s tutorial, I’ll show you eleven different time-consuming effects that can be achieved quite easily with CSS3.

HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet is an useful cheat sheet for web designers and developers designed by me. This cheat sheet is essentially a simple visual grid with a list of all HTML tags and of their related attributes supported by HTML versions 4.01 and/or 5. The simple visual style I used to design this sheet allows you to find at a glance everything you are looking for.

Alex Russell has been having a really interesting discussion with some standards folks about what is wrong on the Web right now, and it narrowed down to discuss CSS variables as a case study (it aint perfect, but get DRY and ship it!)

Alex tells it how it is, but people forget that he does this as he is passionate about the Web, and that he does also give credit and positive outlook IF it is due!

There’s been some buzz about the upcoming HTML 5 standard over the past few months. In particular, there are a couple of new features that people are looking forward to. One of them is the new <canvas> element which introduces a 2D drawing API offering a pretty rich set of functionality. If you’ve worked with HTML much, you can probably imagine some of the things that become possible with this. In fact, those are probably some of the same things that Flash and Silverlight are being used for today! So some people have gone as far as to suggest HTML 5 could eliminate the need for Flash and Silverlight…

Recently I’ve been reading a lot of articles on HTML 5 (such as on Zeldman.com and HTML 5 Doctor), and have seen a few reoccurring false perceptions in the comments. While some may seem funny for those following HTML 5’s progress closely, a lot of people aren’t, nor can they be expected to.

So in addition to the WhatWG FAQ, here are some common misunderstandings (and their explanations), written at a less technical level. My apologies for any overuse of the interrobang

Webkit is one of the few – if only – browser engines that really embraces advanced CSS3 effects. Unfortunately, this presents somewhat of a double-edged sword. We get to play with all of these amazing effects – such as CSS masks, reflections, transitions, animations, scaling, etc. – yet, we can’t truly implement them into our projects until more browsers provide support. With all of that said, it’s important to be on the cutting edge of what’s possible.

In today’s video tutorial, we’ll review a bunch of different neat effects that can be used in Safari 4, Chrome, and for all iPhone development.

In the last weeks I frequently received a question about how to use CSS3 border-radius property to draw HTML elements with rounded corners in Internet Explorer. How you know CSS3 border-radius property is natively supported in Safari, Firefox and Chrome but for some mysterious reason this property is not supported in Internet Explorer.

HTML 5 will include tools to play and display video and audio inside the browser, with just one simple HTML tag. While they’re crucial currently, you may find yourself asking ‘who needs plug-ins now?’

BROWSER PLUGINS ARE, to say the least, awkward. You never know just what your users have installed, or even which versions they support. We’ve all been there, with a fresh install of Firefox, suddenly finding we don’t have the right plug-in or codec to see the video that’s waiting for us on someone’s site. It’s frustrating and annoying, and sometimes it’s just easier to go somewhere else.
HTML 5 is intended to make that go away. Not only does it add video and audio tags that work just like our old friend , it’s also expected to mandate browser support for key media types, including the open source Ogg formats.